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Table of Contents
Stumbling Around in the Dark |
Introduction: On Reading: A Pact With the Devil |
Part I:
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Chapter 1: Blindness, or What Is This No-Thing We See? |
The Book as a (Death) Sentence |
Blind Ethics, or Close Your Eyes (to) See the Third |
Literary Theory and the Erasure of Texts |
Chapter 2: The Contract: Venus in Furs, or How to Read the Other |
A Question of Violence; A Statement of Terror |
A Question of Reading, or “Art Lies in the Gap Between the Painting and the Viewer” |
“What Is To Be Done?” or How to Read While Maintaining Radical Otherness |
The Reader Before the Law, or What Is My Right of Inspection |